Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies: 1 Game of the Year award

No: Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2009 and finished No. 15; the season went to Uncharted 2: Among Thieves with 117. Spike Video Game Awards named Uncharted 2: Among Thieves its Game of the Year.

Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies is a 2009 role-playing video game developed by Level-5 and Square Enix for the Nintendo DS. Published by Square Enix in Japan in July 2009 and by Nintendo overseas the following year, it is the ninth mainline entry in the Dragon Quest series.

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Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies finished #15 in the 2009 race, with 1 GOTY award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

1Total awards
0Media outlets
1Readers' choice
1Countries

Also in the 2009 season: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (117), Batman: Arkham Asylum (30), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (27), Left 4 Dead 2 (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies win?

Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2009 season — 0.4% of every award tracked that season. 0 came from editorial picks and 1 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 15 in 2009, behind Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, which collected 117 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerYes
Online multiplayerNo
Released11 July 2009
DeveloperLevel-5
PublisherNintendo

role-playing video game
Nintendo DS

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
Japan	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
Famitsu Readers	Japan	2009

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Updated 2 October 2026 · Source: the Meta Awards database, where every award row cites where it was published.